1,044 Quotes About Africa

Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.

Des mots tordus, des mots décousus, des mots sans queue ni tête, j’écrirais comme les mots me viendraient, je commencerais maladroitement et je finirais maladroitement comme j’avais commencé, je m’en foutrais de la raison pure, de la méthode, de la phonétique, de la prose (...), ça serait alors l’écriture ou la vie. [Verre Cassé, p. 198]

Plus les pays sont pauvres, plus leur marchés sont riches (the poorer the country, the richer their markets)

you’ve used vaseline your whole life&put olive oil on your eyelashes before bedeven your make up brushes line up for youbc you saw sultans that had nothing but camels

you buy perfume from the yemenites for only 100 francsperfumes in golden lids,colours of satin red,persian bluethe whole shuttle bus stinks of you, loveeven after you leaveyou complain when they run out too quicklybut you are a somali girl

The Atlantic has my jaw in its fist because my teeth and tongue have curled into knuckles. The Atlantic has Africa in its fist because they’ve been trading ghosts for centuries. The Atlantic has Haiti in its fist because the slaves had so much fight it filled up the moon; the moon moves everything.

Our first project, LIFE BEHIND BARS VOL. I is the most comprehensive photographic study to date of exotic and endangered animals and the necessity of their being kept in captivity for their own protection, and that of their species” declares Julian Starks.

My dream, thus mission in life is to travel the world and photograph beautiful, vibrant animals in all places and circumstances, free and confined”. Julian Starks

OUR MISSION IS THE ANIMALS!Project Manager - Mary Ann Collins